Pinterest Inspired Wall Project, revised!

So I have no clue how Martha Stewart did her crafts pre-pinterest! I have found more inspiration, humor, ideas and solutions on that website than google, facebook and myspace combined.
The latest project I tackled was a combo of a few pins I have pinned.

The first one being from this blog
http://jandaandco.blogspot.com/2012/02/you-are-my-sunshine-gallery-wall.html

That is the great thing about Pinterest. For those of you who dont know pinterest is a online site where you can save "pins" or pictures of items that interest you with links to the original internet post. You can save them to "boards" to orginaze projects, ideas or thought Almost anything you can think of is avilable and if its not you can create a pin and add it.

So back to my project. Oringinally I thought this would be a great project for the wall that separates Nu and Nugs room. I thought I wanted to do a "brother" wall but it ended up being more of a family wall.

The second pin I took ideas from is
http://pinterest.com/pin/1477812347933350/

Now this is where this one gets a little tricky. This is a picture from a website linked below
http://www.smallchichome.com/2011/06/organic-bloom-frames.html
That takes you to a site where they sell beautiful frames, too expensive for me and hard to obtain, you must know a photographer that is able to purchase from.

So this pin states that Hobby Lobby has knock offs you can paint a wood piece, and deco podge a pict onto for a copy cat look for $1.  Being the cheap skate I am $1, im sold!. My wonderful hubby, in his travels one day to the other side of the world, where Hobby lobby is located stopped in to pick them up.
First they are NOT $1. They are $2.99, still MUCH for afortable than the original frames. They also dont come in as unique shapes as the ones above. I told him get me a few of the crazyest shapped ones you could find. Bless him and his amazing self came home with 10! yay....

Now it was time to get this started.
First I sprayed the wood plaques and a fabulous board my neighboor was throwing away with a light coat of white primer

My lovely assistant

I also pulled inspiration from a another pin

http://www.simplymal.com/diy-wood-sign-made-with-stickers/

We tell our boys "I love you to the last star and back" every night before they go to bed so I knew that was the saying I wanted to use.
I found a local mommy who's hubby does vinyl lettering and they were super reasonable and made it totally custom for me.
Check them out at https://www.facebook.com/pages/Riffle-Sign-Design/139853122712073 and tell them Nu and Nug sent ya.

I did the "painting the board over the vinyl letter technique" then came back with a skinny brush to add some white to the letters (half way done here)

I picked up the yellow paint from Lowes in the ooppps section for $.50 and the blue was a sample container for less than $3. The green is a sample of our exterior home color. There wasn't much used from each container at all.

I used a sponge to apply the collage-pauge. It makes for a smoother look. I love how it makes almost a protective coat to the picture.



I also love letters for names, my house has its share of "H's" around. I purchased this through the website http://www.groopdealz.com/index/index-alldeals which has daily boutique deals. The sellers link is listed below.

http://www.etsy.com/shop/BlessHerHeartDesigns?ref=search_shop_redirect
Very sweet girl. I had received a broken H and emailed her and right away she sent another one.
The H did not have hooks attached so back to pinterest for a solution

My version, using Gorilla Glue

 *******SEE LINK BELOW FOR GIVEAWAY FROM BLESS HER HEART DESIGNS*****

I took this idea, a free 11x14 print, and a canvas from walmart
http://pinterest.com/pin/1477812348061676/

My version

I used a brush to add the pauge, I like the sponge look much better, although this did end up with a canvas texture.

ok so drum roll please........


Final product and I have to say I'm kinda ehhhh... I don't know if it was end of night kids, bathing/delirum/crazyness/no dinner for momma and dada but Im not 100% pleased. I think I defiantly
 need more stuff at the bottom but I'm kinda feeling cluttered. Not sure if I should move to the playroom and start all over, that defeats the purpose of the "star" sign... grrrrr
Maybe I should space more to bring to floor?? Ps its not the best pict due to camera distorting the colors and giving a bad glare so this is the phone pict version...
Ill do a revise soon but for now I'm throwing this to the wolfs to find a general consensus

     **************** EDITED POST*********************

So After pondering this wall for a few weeks I decided I defiantly needed to move and separate the top. We also obtained a silhouette portrait of the boys from a recent downtown disney trip I knew I wanted to incorporate.. So the new and improved version is....

Again the pict quality is poor but you can get the idea..

Taa Daa.... This newer version makes my brain hurt a little less....

 And great news WE HAVE ANOTHER GIVEAWAYYYYY (said in my best Oprah voice)


Brittney at Bless Her Heart Designs has agreed to giveaway a letter from her etsy shop!!!!
Make sure you like her facebook page and let her know Nu and Nug sent ya! Qualified participants will be included in giveaway, make sure you enter in the raffle box below....




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